Man reportedly shot during violent demonstrations in Charlotte dies

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Man reportedly shot during violent demonstrations in Charlotte dies

City officials gave conflicting explanations of what happened
to the protester, who is said to have been shot during protests
over police shooting of Keith Scott

Matthew Teague in Charlotte, North Carolina
Thursday 22 September 2016 23.15 BST

A man who was injured during demonstrations in Charlotte died on Thursday, as protesters and police prepared to face off for a third night.

Protesters were demonstrating over the death of Keith Scott on Tuesday. Police shot Scott in the parking lot of the apartment complex where he lived on the east side of town.

Details of what happened to the protester have been muddled, with conflicting explanations from city officials. At first the city’s police chief, Kerr Putney, said the man had died on Wednesday night. That announcement was initially reversed.

The city also said the man, whose name has not been released, was injured during a “civilian on civilian” shooting at an intersection. On Thursday afternoon, that explanation seemed increasingly tenuous.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/22/north-carolina-protester-dies-keith-scott-police-shooting

[chillfactor]

1. cops will lie, lie, and lie some more...

to protect the murderers among them.

[Boxerfan]

2. Very strange-but when you see the gas canisters wizzing by peoples heads....

I'd wager there is a "simpler" explanation. And they would love to keep it under wraps.

Just wild conjecture-but seriously-those canisters can kill you if they hit you. And the aim looked right into the crowd & I saw some pass people near the shot that would be dead if it hit them.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. That is what some witnesses say

“There were a lot of us out there who know the difference between a gunshot and a gas canister,” Thomas said. He examined the injured man, he said. The man was lying on the sidewalk, blood pouring from the back of his head. Thomas said he saw no entry wound in the front.

Thomas’s estimation of what happened is that the protester was shot by a so-called “less lethal” round, a gas canister, pepper ball or some other projectile that caused him to stumble back and hit his head on the brick sidewalk.

That account agrees with what other witnesses claimed to have seen.

“I saw the police shoot that man almost point blank with my own eyes,” Jimmy James Tyson wrote on Facebook. “Police shot him close range in the side of the head with a rubber bullet.”

[linuxman]

3. A trained ape can tell the difference between the blunt force trauma of a cannister

and a gunshot wound.


It's not going to take batman subbing in as the coroner to crack the case.

[NaturalHigh]

5. I was afraid of this. He was extremely critical last night.